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enchantment October 1, 2012 • Vol. 64, No. 10 USPS 175-880 • ISSN 0046-1946 Circulation 125,292

CONTENTS

enchantment (ISSN 0046-1946) is published monthly by the New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association, 614 Don Gaspar Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87505. enchantment provides reliable, helpful information on rural living and energy use to electric cooperative members and customers.

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Over 125,000 families and businesses receive enchantment Magazine as electric cooperative members. Nonmember subscriptions are available at $8 per year or $13 for two years, payable to NMRECA. Allow four to eight weeks for delivery.

When Passages Meet Paper

Embark on a journey with two of our state's premier Hispanic writers who invite us into their homes, and share their trials and tribulations of getting words on paper. Cover story and cover photo by Karen Boehler.

Periodical Postage paid at Santa Fe, NM 87501-9998 and additional mailing offices.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS Postmaster: Send address changes to 614 Don Gaspar Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87505-4428.

Readers who receive the publication through their electric cooperative membership should report address changes to their local electric cooperative office.

The New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association provides legislative and educational services for the 18 cooperatives that deliver electric power to New Mexico’s rural areas and small communities. Each cooperative has a representative on the association’s board of directors, which controls the editorial content and advertising policy of enchantment through its Publications Committee.

OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Charles Pinson, President ....................................Central Valley Electric Cooperative, Artesia George Biel, Vice President ..................................Sierra Electric Cooperative, Elephant Butte Jerry Smith, Secretary-Treasurer ...................................Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, Taos BOARD OF DIRECTORS Leandro Abeyta ...............................Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative, Mountainair William C. Miller, Jr................................................... Columbus Electric Cooperative, Deming Arsenio Salazar ..............................................Continental Divide Electric Cooperative, Grants Lance R. Adkins ..............................................................Farmers’ Electric Cooperative, Clovis Kenneth T. Borrego ....................................Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative, Española Robert Caudle ......................................................Lea County Electric Cooperative, Lovington Robert M. Quintana.......................................... Mora-San Miguel Electric Cooperative, Mora Tomas G. Rivas............................................Northern Río Arriba Electric Cooperative, Chama Preston Stone ..................................................Otero County Electric Cooperative, Cloudcroft Jerry W. Partin ..............................................Roosevelt County Electric Cooperative, Portales Donald Wolberg ............................................................Socorro Electric Cooperative, Socorro Gary Rinker .........................................................Southwestern Electric Cooperative, Clayton Paul Costa ...................................................................Springer Electric Cooperative, Springer Wayne Connell .........................................Tri-State G&T Association, Westminster, Colorado John Ingle ..................................................Western Farmers Electric Cooperative, Oklahoma NATIONAL DIRECTOR David Spradlin .............................................................................................................Springer MEMBERS OF THE PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE Donald Woldberg, Chairman .....................................................Socorro Electric Cooperative William C. Miller, Jr.................................................................Columbus Electric Cooperative Lance R. Adkins ........................................................................ Farmers’ Electric Cooperative Kenneth T. Borrego ................................................... Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative Robert M. Quintana....................................................Mora-San Miguel Electric Cooperative NEW MEXICO RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION 614 Don Gaspar Avenue .......................................................................Phone: 505-982-4671 Santa Fe, NM 87505 ..................................................................................Fax: 505-982-0153 www.nmelectric.coop....................................................................www.enchantment.coop Keven J. Groenewold........................................................................ Executive Vice President Susan M. Espinoza ..........................................................................................................Editor Tom Condit ......................................................................................................Assistant Editor ADVERTISING Rates available upon request. Cooperative members and New Mexico advertisers, call Susan M. Espinoza at 505-982-4671 or e-mail at sespinoza@nmelectric.coop.

National representative: The Weiss Group, 915-533-5394.

FEATURES

10 Blessing of the Animals 14 The Way of the Lotus 15 Cherishing the Memory of Getting Electricity 17 Heating Season Shut-Off Protection Notice

You may be eligible to receive Low Income Heating Energy Assistance this winter season. Find out how.

Each year community members gather to have their beloved pets blessed in October.

A potential water-repellent coating that may help prevent power lines from snapping in frigid weather.

A co-op member shares her childhood memory of lining up in the living room.

DEPARTMENTS 4 Co-op News: The open meetings policy requires the Public Regulation Commission to give advance notice of its meetings.

19 enchanted journeys: Events and information from co-op country.

4 Hale to the Stars: Venus blazes in the sky, Curiosity roves over Gale Crater, and Halley's Comet makes a comeback in 2061.

20 Relics, etc.: Want to buy or sell that hard-to-find something? A Relics ad is for you.

5 Los Antepasados: Forty, 20 and 10 years ago in enchantment.

23 Youth Art: What time is it exactly? Our Youth Artist's know.

5 the view from enchantment: Why cooperatives of all sorts celebrate in October.

Advertisements in enchantment are paid solicitations and are not endorsed by the publisher or the electric cooperatives of New Mexico. PRODUCT SATISFACTION AND DELIVERY RESPONSIBILITY LIE SOLELY WITH THE ADVERTISER.

6 Table for Two: A pinch of salt here; a pinch of salt there.

What you can do to avoid all the excess salt.

Copyright ©2012, New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Inc. Reproduction prohibited without written permission of the publisher.

8 Cut Your Energy Dollars: Take a wise turn and use a ceiling fan to save on your electric bill.

QUESTIONS, COMMENTS OR EVENT NOTICES? We welcome your comments or information about community events. Our mailing address is 614 Don Gaspar Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87505. Our phone number is 505-982-4671. Or, you can e-mail us. For comments e-mail: comments@nmelectric.coop. For events e-mail: events@nmelectric.coop.

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16 Book Chat: Sketching the West, people and events of Española, where villagers gather, and forgotten stories of our state.

18 Nuestros Vecinos: The sounds of music could no longer be heard in the school halls, until the bandmaster came home.

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24 Your Co-op Page: The latest from your electric cooperative. at enchantment magazine …

We believe New Mexico is a great place to live. We want to share our enthusiasm with the members of New Mexico’s rural electric cooperatives. Our goal is to tell the story of the people and places that make New Mexico special. We also want to offer our readers useful and reliable information about energy use, conservation and rural electric cooperation.

Our priorities are: • People: Friends and neighbors in their jobs and hobbies.

• Places: Charming and interesting nooks and crannies around the state.

• Heritage: The culture we share and the events that created it.

• Co-ops: The story of the cooperatives that power our lives and our state.

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Co-op News

A monthly guide to the stars of New Mexico

the latest news from around the state and the nation

NMPRC Annual Open Meetings Policy and Notice

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n accordance with the Open Meetings Act, NMSA 1978, Sections 10-15-1 (A) and (B), the following electric cooperatives notify their consumers that a copy of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (NMPRC) Annual Open Meetings Policy and Notice is available for inspection in English at the utilities’ offices and at the office of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission, P.E.R.A. Building, 1120 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM. A copy of the Annual Open Meetings Policy and Notice is also posted on the NMPRC’s website at www.nmprc.state.nm.us. A Spanish version of the Annual Open Meetings Policy and Notice may be obtained by calling the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission at 1-800-947-4722.

The open meetings policy requires the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission to give advance notice of any and all of its meetings so the general public has an opportunity to attend. All meetings must be held in public and all commission decisions must be made before the public.

Following is a list of the New Mexico rural electric cooperatives and their physical addresses where the Annual Open Meetings Policy and Notice may be read.

• Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative 301 N. Summit, Mountainair 810 1st Street, Moriarty • Central Valley Electric Cooperative 1505 N. 13th Street, Artesia

New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperatives

Northern Río Arriba Kit Carson SouthSpringer western Jemez Mountains Continental Divide

• Continental Divide Electric Cooperative 200 E. High Street, Grants 2550 NM State Highway 602, Gallup • Farmers’ Electric Cooperative 3701 Thornton Street, Clovis 1169 Historic Route 66, Santa Rosa 618 E. Sumner Avenue, Fort Sumner

Roosevelt County Otero

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Lea Central County Valley

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View of the terrain surrounding the Curiosity rover in Mars’ Gale Crater. The mountains in the distance are a part of Mount Sharp, which Curiosity will scale during the coming months. Photo courtesy NASA.

• Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative Chama Highway, Española #71 Highway 126, Cuba 17421 Highway 4, Jemez Springs

• Otero County Electric Cooperative 202 Burro Avenue, Cloudcroft 1135 Highway 48, Alto 513 12th Avenue, Carrizozo

• Kit Carson Electric Cooperative 118 Cruz Alta Road, Taos

• Roosevelt County Electric Cooperative 121 N. Main Street, Portales

• Lea County Electric Cooperative 1300 W. Avenue D, Lovington 203 S. Main Street, Tatum 507 9th Street, Plains, Texas

• Sierra Electric Cooperative 610 Highway 195, Elephant Butte

• Mora–San Miguel Electric Cooperative Main Street, Mora Highway 50, Pecos • Northern Río Arriba Electric Cooperative 1135 Camino Escondido, Chama

• Socorro Electric Cooperative 215 E. Manzanares Avenue, Socorro • Southwestern Electric Cooperative 216 Main Street, Clayton • Springer Electric Cooperative 408 Maxwell Avenue, Springer

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s fate would have it, two of our solar system’s bright planets are hidden in sunlight during October. But what the nighttime planet show misses in quantity, it makes up for in quality; two of our planets put on excellent performances in our nighttime skies, while a third one is the scene of some dramatic goings-on of its own.

Our solar system’s largest planet, Jupiter, rises in the east during the mid-evening hours, and shines brightly almost directly overhead one to two hours before dawn. Meanwhile, Venus blazes in our eastern sky during the morning hours.

On Wednesday morning, the 3rd, Venus passes right next to the bright star Regulus in the constellation Leo, the lion.

Although Venus is by far the brighter of the two objects this is nevertheless a spectacular show for viewing via both the unaided eye and through binoculars or a telescope.

The red planet, Mars, is low in our southwestern sky during the evening hours, and sets about two hours after sunset—as it will continue to do throughout the remainder

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Mora-San Miguel Central New Mexico

• Columbus Electric Cooperative 900 N. Gold, Deming

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of this year. While it appears rather dim and unimpressive, Mars maintains a strong presence in our minds, primarily due to the successful touchdown of the Curiosity rover upon its surface back in early August. By now Curiosity has started its reconnaissance of the surrounding areas of Gale Crater where it landed, and we can expect much in the way of dramatic images and discoveries during the months to come.

The Orionid shower peaks around October 20 and 21 is reasonably strong, producing nearly 20 meteors per hour.

As their name suggests, they appear to come from the prominent constellation Orion, and this year the moon will set during the evening hours, and thus not interfere when the shower is at its best during the hours before dawn. The Orionids come from dust grains that were ejected from Halley’s Comet, which last appeared in 1986, and which younger readers should see when it next returns in 2061. e Alan Hale is a co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp and the founder of the Southwest Institute for Space Research and the Earthrise Project. Hale lives in Cloudcroft, where the dark skies are a boon to stargazing.

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October 2: The Old Transformer. During the last session of the New Mexico House one legislator introduce a bill to tax the generation of electricity at ½ mill per kilowatt hour. It was purported to be the answer to New Mexico’s air pollution problem. To sell the bill, a bit of reverse English was used: the tax won’t cost any individual very much, but it will generate a lot of income for the state from Arizona and California.

—Holt Priddy

20 Years Ago in enchantment

October 2: A Belly Laugh for Arrogance. New Mexico’s Open Meetings law is clear about the “right” not “privilege,” of examining public records. The battle over access to public records is an old one. A lot of administrators flat don’t like anyone looking over their shoulders even when it involves, for example, the expenditure of public funds. Political types who run state entities generally accept that their documents belong to the public, and the public, so long as it is lawful, has the right to take a look.

—Jack Flynn

10 Years Ago in enchantment

October 2002: Ban the Spam.

The Telecommunications Research and Action Center, the National Consumers League and Consumer Action joined forces to fight junk e-mail by asking the Federal Trade Commission to “Ban the Spam.” The petition asks for a FTC rule that defines unsolicited commercial e-mail as “deceptive and therefore unlawful” if it falls into several categories including: Misrepresents the subject or content.

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The Spirit of Cooperation

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ards, letters, and cake flood our office every October when we celebrate National Cooperative Month. The celebration has lasted even longer in 2012 with the United Nations— sanctioned International Year—a full year!—of Cooperatives. But what are we really celebrating?

What makes your rural electric cooperative different, and why should that matter to YOU? Our economy still has critical hurdles to overcome, so you may not feel like celebrating at all. But when our faith in big institutions has been shaken, it’s the perfect time to remember what we’ve already accomplished locally—all with a little cooperation.

We’ve faced tough times before—75 years ago our area didn’t have electricity. Young folks were leaving en-masse to find a brighter future in urban areas, and rural America was left in the dark. But instead of waiting for someone else to fi x our problem, we turned to each other. We built our own utility and we powered our future.

By our very nature, not-for-profit, local, member-owned and -governed

cooperatives, like electric co-ops, empower members to improve their lives.

While bringing electricity to rural New Mexico was a big first step, you, as our members, certainly didn’t stop there. Just think about what we’ve accomplished in New Mexico during the last year!

• The new Wildcat wind farm and natural gas fired power plant in Lea County.

by Keven J. Groenewold, P.E. electric co-ops in New Mexico have grown into quite a business. Not bad for a bunch of folks who knew very little about electric power companies.

Many rural New Mexicans are risk takers.

In their own quiet way, they face the daily challenges of surviving in this arid desert. Mostly, they succeed. Some of their success comes from the basic service they receive

tain your co-ops around the state. They oversee $1 billion in utility plants, including over 46,000 miles of power lines.

In 2010, the cost of power was $10 million and the cost to deliver that power was another $10 million. At the end of the year, the total patronage capital (which is what is left over after all expenses are paid) was just under $ million.

Thank you for your efforts to strengthen our communities. We want you to continue to stay involved as we build a better future together.

• The broadband build out in Taos County.

• You funded $00,000 in college scholarships for your neighbors’ children.

These bright young leaders will keep our community’s future strong.

• Supporting a strong community on your behalf, our employees serve on chambers of commerce, civic clubs, United Way, Boys & Girls Clubs, and school boards.

By working with your cooperative you can make a big impact on the communities we serve. From such humble beginnings 75 years ago, the rural

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from their electric co-op.

As the origins of electric cooperatives fade into the past, let’s reaffirm the spirit of cooperation. Each of you are a part of this evolution and should take pride in the success of New Mexico’s cooperatives.

Today, cooperatives in New Mexico serve over 210,000 customers—from Rodeo to Des Moines and from Chama to Lovington. The land area served by consumerowned co-ops in New Mexico is almost 100,000 square miles.

There are 800 employees that operate and main-

As we celebrate National Cooperative Month, thank you for your efforts to strengthen our communities. We want you to continue to stay involved as we build a better future together.

The cooperative business model is a handy tool that lets us improve our e quality of life.

Keven J. Groenewold is the executive vice president and general manager of the New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association, which publishes enchantment Magazine on behalf of New Mexico’s rural electric cooperatives.

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Less Salt, Same Flavor

by Mary Gerlach, R.D.

S You can still make tasty foods without all the extra added sodium and salt.

odium plays a vital role in our health. Scientists estimate the body requires 250 to 500 milligrams (mg) of sodium each day for basic functions, such as transporting nutrients, transmitting nerve impulses and contracting muscles, including your heart.

But when sodium levels are too high, the kidneys release more water, increasing the volume of blood in the body which increases blood pressure. Over time, increased blood pressure causes the heart to work harder to pump blood and threatens the stability of blood

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vessels, raising the risk of heart disease and stroke.

We tend to think of sodium and salt as one and the same, but there is a difference. Table salt is sodium chloride, which is actually 40 percent sodium and 60 percent chloride. About 75 percent of the sodium we consume in our diets comes in the form of processed foods rather than by the salt shaker.

Salt enhances flavor and preserves foods when processed The only way to avoid too much salt is to choose fresh whole foods. Although small amounts of sodium are naturally found in whole foods, it is infinitesimal compared to the amounts found in many processed foods.

A diet that is rich in whole, unprocessed foods provides a healthy balance of fiber, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Reduce the intake or avoid the usual suspects, like bacon, ham and other cured meats, most fast foods, frozen or boxed entrees, canned vegetables, as well as most prepared sauces and salad dressings. Read labels to make good choices.

The 2005 Dietary Guidelines recommend the consumption of just 2,300 milligrams (mg) of sodium each day for adults (the equivalent of 1 scant teaspoon of salt), yet most Americans consume more than twice that amount. For people over 50, the Guidelines recommend an upper limit of 1,500mg sodium per day. For those over 70, the daily limit drops to 1,200mg (½ teaspoon salt).

A mineral that plays a key role in a lower sodium diet is potassium.

Potassium helps balance the effects of sodium in the body and is found in substantial levels in root vegetables, leafy greens and fresh fruits.

When the USDA lowered the dietary guidelines for sodium in 2005, it raised the recommendations for potassium from 3,500 to 4,700mg per day. Most Americans consume far less than this amount, with an average potassium intake for women between 2,100 to 2,300mg, while men consume between 2,900 and 3,200mg.

Mongolian Beef with Rice and Snow Peas 1½ cups fresh snow peas, trimmed 1 (1-pound) flank steak, trimmed and cut into thin slices Butter-flavored cooking spray 1⁄₃ cup hoisin sauce 2 Tbs. water 2 tsps. peeled fresh ginger, minced 1 tsp. bottled roasted garlic, minced 2 tsps. dark sesame oil ½ tsp. crushed red pepper 4 green onions 4 cups cooked long-grain rice ❧ Arrange snow peas in a steamer basket over boiling water. Cover and steam 1 to 2 minutes or until crisptender. Plunge peas into ice water to stop the cooking process; drain.

Meanwhile, heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Coat steak with cooking spray. Cook steak in pan over medium-high heat 3 minutes or until browned, and liquid has almost evaporated, stirring occasionally.

While steak cooks, in a small bowl combine hoisin sauce and next 5 ingredients. Cut onions crosswise into 1-inch pieces. Add sauce mixture and onions to meat in pan; cook 1 to 2 minutes or until sauce is slightly reduced (do not overcook meat).

Serve immediately with snow peas over rice. Makes 4 servings.

Nutritional analysis per serving. Calories 360; Carbohydrates 55g; Protein 29g; Fat 11g; Cholesterol 38mg; Sodium 417mg.

Easy Low-Sodium Mushroom Marinara Sauce 1 Tb. olive oil 1 cup yellow onion, chopped (about 1 medium) 1 Tb. garlic (about 2 cloves), minced 8-10 fresh mushrooms, thinly sliced ¾ tsp. dried basil ½ tsp. dried oregano ½ tsp. dried thyme ½ tsp. freshly ground black pepper ½ tsp. fennel seeds, crushed 1 tsp. red chile peppers, crushed 2 tsps. balsamic vinegar 1 cup fat-free, no-sodium chicken broth 1 (28-ounce) can no-salt-added tomatoes, crushed ❧ In a large Dutch oven, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion and garlic; sauté 3 minutes, stirring frequently.

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²⁄₃ cup low-fat buttermilk 1 tsp. grated orange rind 2 tsps. sugar ❧ Preheat oven to 400°F. Fruit Mixture: In saucepan, combine first 5 ingredients. Bring to a boil; stir occasionally. Reduce heat; simmer 10 minutes or until cranberries pop and mixture is slightly thick.

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Broccoli with Cheddar Beer Sauce  cups fresh broccoli florets 2 (¼) cups beer 1½ Tbs. all-purpose flour ¾ cup lowfat milk ¾ cup reduced-fat, lower sodium grated cheddar cheese 1 Tb. chives, chopped ½ tsp. lemon rind, grated ¼ tsp. freshly ground black pepper ❧ Arrange broccoli in a steamer.

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When Passages Meet Paper…

by Cindy Bellinger

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ctober celebrates National Cooperative Month, Stamp Collecting, Roller Skating, and Popcorn Poppin’. It’s also National Hispanic Heritage Month, the perfect time to highlight two of our state’s premier Hispanic writers: Rudolfo Anaya and Nasario García. In very different ways, both authors preserve the old traditions of their culture while embracing the new.

People like to assume authors of their stature had it made from the beginning, that they never encountered any obstacles personally or professionally, that it was all smooth sailing. For both writers this was not so. Both grew up in rural areas then moved to bigger towns where, once in school, they grappled finding a toehold not only in the Anglo culture but in the sophisticated society of citified Hispanics. As both Anaya and García began playing with the notion of being a writer, they each realized it meant making the time and finding the discipline to write; they both experienced the sting of rejection.

Anaya’s first novel, Bless Me, Ultima, received rejection after rejection from publishers. Once published, it gathered much acclaim in some circles; it was also banned from libraries and schools. Today, the book is a classic and now a recent movie. The title remains on the banned book list, which the literary world often deems as true merit because it means some aspect struck a chord.

“When Bless Me, Ultima came out, the novel intrigued me. I remember wanting to meet the man who wrote it,” says García. He eventually did get to meet Anaya and today the two men are friends, having dinner together and stopping by to say hello when in town. From 1986 to 2001, García lived in Las Vegas and now lives in Santa Fe. Anaya has lived in Albuquerque since 1952, and for the past thirty years has enjoyed a getaway cabin in Jemez Springs.

Despite fame, and maybe even a bit of fortune, their houses are modest, the décor unpretentious. I sat with each, chatting at their kitchen tables drinking iced tea. García—gregarious, forthcoming, never at a loss for words—found a niche as a collector of oral histories, of children’s stories, of essays, of riddles, and more. His work strives to record the old culture that is too quickly disappearing in New Mexico.

Anaya also reaches into his traditional culture, though mostly through fiction. He’s thoughtful, which results in powerful passages in his work that touch on aspects of the human condition that some would rather turn away from. He brings a fresh voice from deep realms.

Together these two men represent a vast body of work firmly ensconced in the literary world. Both continue to have books in the making and still embody the life of “the writer.” Both will remain much acclaimed, their writing admirable and inspiring.

The town of Santa Rosa named a park after Bless Me, Ultima. This past spring the Historical Society of New Mexico honored Nasario García with its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award. There’s no doubt that New Mexico truly recognizes the contributions of these two major writers. Cindy Bellinger is a member of Mora-San Miguel Electric Cooperative, and writes the Book Chat reviews for enchantment.

Photos by Cindy Bellinger, and book covers courtesy of Univeristy of New Mexico Press.

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Nasario García • born in bernalillo, and grew up in the Río Puerco valley, southeast of Chaco Canyon.

• the name ‘nasario’ relates to nazareth or nazarius, meaning an “offshoot.”

• garcía started school in a oneroom schoolhouse before his family moved to Albuquerque when he was nine.

• garcía's goal is to publish 30 books. he's now on number 25.

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ause a moment and think this little nugget through: “People who only hear their voices are hard of hearing.” Now try this one: “We live in an imperfect world, with perfectly imperfect human beings.” These little snippets come from the ‘Ideas’ binder that García keeps all his passing thoughts in.

He has another collection called Cool Silly Willy: 100 Crazy and Quirky Sayings for Kids Six to Ninety-Six. Here are two samples: • When Grandma’s baby chick grew to be a hen, the hen wrote me letters using only a ball-point pen.

• Yesterday at noon I saw a huge tadpole, pole vaulting across a large lagoon using a tablespoon.

Notebooks are a writer’s sketchpad, a place to try out ideas, a way to work through convoluted thinking, a system to figure out passages. Journals, scraps of paper, the backs of envelopes—anything—to catch those stray words and phrases that often come unbidden, flitting through with a tendency to evaporate if not scribbled down.

“I usually work two to three hours in the morning writing. That’s followed by several hours of reading in the afternoon,” García says. “Then I pull weeds, sweep leaves in the yard.”

We sat in a small breakfast nook off the kitchen that looked onto a newly laid brick patio. It was springtime and he was looking forward to using the patio in the summer. He and his wife, Jan, moved there ten years ago follow-

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ing his retirement from Highlands University in Las Vegas.

He recently published Grandpa Lolo's Navajo Saddle Blanket, his twenty-fifth book. “I have two more in the works, both coming out next year,” he says. “My goal is to publish thirty books. I’m also working on a novel.”

Though most comfortable writing nonfiction and poetry, as a former literature professor he knows how a novel works. “A lot has happened to the genre and it drives me crazy, the unorthodox structure of the novel now. But people are forever saying, ‘You’re always collecting stories. Why don’t you write your own?’ So I began writing short stories and children’s stories as a way to warm up to the novel.” He says writing short stories “takes discipline, they’re so compact. Whereas a novel can become like a hammock, swinging back and forth through time.”

Early Years García was born in Bernalillo, but grew up in the Río Puerco Valley, southeast of Chaco Canyon. The name ‘Nasario’ relates to Nazareth or nazarius, meaning an “offshoot.” García started school in a one-room schoolhouse before his family moved to Albuquerque when he was nine. He began learning English then, too. Emotion still touches him when he speaks of those early school days in the city. He had one shirt, wore bib overalls and polished high-top shoes. “The kids taunted me because I

was poor. My mother, who was uneducated but wise, reminded me to tell the kids at least my shirt was clean.”

After graduating from high school, García enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving two years. Then he earned a B.A. in Spanish and an M.A. in Portuguese from the University of New Mexico, followed by a year of doctoral work at the University of Granada, Spain. By then he’d married Jan, and it was on their excursions into the countryside that García began noticing the nuances

someone loaned him a reel-to-reel tape recorder. “Remember those huge ancient things?” he laughs. But this first “high tech” interview with his paternal grandparents in 1968 issued a parallel career for him. “My grandfather was a cowboy, and at twenty-three married my grandmother who was only thirteen. One day he came home and was annoyed because she hadn’t started dinner. He couldn’t find her.

She was next door playing dolls with a neighbor girl!” This was just the sort of thing García hoped to find, and he went on to fill many books of oral histories about witchcraft, humor, women of the Río Puerco Valley, ghost stories, faith, tragedies, all with a bilingual format.

During his long career in academia, García held various administrative posts, finally accepting the position of Dean of Arts and Sciences at Highlands University in 1986. “But I quit after five years. It was like running in place. I wanted to get back into the classroom.

I was shocked, though; many students had a ninth grade reading level unlike the early days when I first started teaching.” He took the freed up time to continue oral histories.

Then after spending thirty years hearing the subtleties of language and listening to the changes in culture, he began experiencing a “nerve wrack-

“When Grandma’s baby chick grew to be a hen, the hen wrote me letters using only a ball-point pen.”~ Nasario García of culture. “We’d watch the religious processions, and I noticed how similar the parade of santos was to the ones in New Mexico,” he says. The connections lingered, incubating.

García admits becoming an oral historian was slow. After being awarded his Ph.D. in 19th century Spanish literature from the University of Pittsburgh in 1972, García took faculty positions in Pittsburgh, Illinois, and Colorado. He focused on teaching, being a husband and father. Trips to New Mexico to gather interviews proved sporadic.

A Folklorist Today, García is considered a renowned folklorist and it all started when

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ing” frustration. He began losing his hearing to Ménière’s disease and over time it became more pervasive. He uses a cochlear implant now, but Jan takes the phone calls, sets his speaking engagements and interprets questions he can’t quite hear. He can no longer do radio interviews. He retired from teaching in 2001.

Looking back García says, “I was lucky. Jobs were always offered to me.

Life is good. I’m doing just what I want now.” Which means writing, jogging, driving to Colorado to visit one daughter and her family, traveling to Italy to visit another daughter and her husband, plus visiting friends in Spain.

He couldn’t ask for anything more. e

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Rudolfo Anaya • born in the small village of Pastura, and grew up in Santa Rosa.

• as a child, anaya could always be found in the library.

• he and his family moved to albuquerque when he was 15.

• anaya has a brown fuzzy-haired dachshund named oso, that is also a character in a book.

• he's written nearly 40 books.

more spiritual with good and evil. I was deep into the wonder of where it was coming from.”

He worked steadily for seven years on a portable typewriter never knowing if this novel would work either.

After many rejections, it caught the eye of a small press in 1972; the larger houses were not interested then in Chicano literature. But when his book began making a stir, larger publishers noticed. And the rest is history.

In the summer of 1974, Anaya took a job teaching in Mexico. While there he was offered a job teaching literature and writing at the University of New Mexico, a position he held until he retired in 1993.

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udolfo Anaya says in talking about the process of writing fiction, “The characters start coming.

They bring a spirit. They grow.” We sat at his kitchen table in a comfortable home on Albuquerque’s west side. Soon two small dogs beg to come in from the patio. He asked if they would bother me; I shake my head no. One caught my eye. A brown, fuzzy-haired dachshund settles at Anaya’s feet. “What’s its name?” I ask. “Oso. Like in the book.”

Of course. In his latest book, Randy Lopez Goes Home, a dachshund accompanies the main character as he makes his way through his old village, returning home after a long life away.

Anaya continues: “The writing was a two-year project. It resonates with Bless Me, Ultima but each work calls for its own style.” In a note to the reader that follows the short allegorical novel of Randy Lopez, Anaya explains the writing progressed as his wife, Patricia, lay dying.

A vision came to him, a revelation that encompassed the story. As he finished sections, he read them to Patricia whom he says was always his best critic. He writes: “She was dying, as Randy dies in the story. [Patricia] knew I was searching for some truth or faith to sustain us during her passage. Randy’s journey was a healing process for us, an acceptance of what was coming.”

Anaya’s gift is tackling tough, often shadowy and obscure subjects, and

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bringing them to light. With a deft pen he creates characters that embody an inner strength to move through obstacles, see through the cracks and come out the other side with understanding.

Or perhaps just the right characters come to him, characters that he can penetrate with insight. Fiction writers often mention whole stories come in one instant with passages often writing themselves. Anaya acknowledges that writing sometimes feels more like taking notes.

Beginnings Anaya’s family farmed and raised sheep on the central plains of New Mexico. He was born in the small village of Pastura and grew up in Santa Rosa. He learned to read early and came to love books.

“I was good at reading and always went to the library. I also loved comics and picked them up in the alley behind the drug store. I knew when they threw them out,” he says.

In 1952, when he was fifteen, his family moved to Albuquerque. After high school Anaya did two years of business college and got a job in an office doing bookkeeping. He remained at home saying his family is “close knit.” He went on to study literature at the University of New Mexico.

“That’s when books came alive and began having such an influence on me.

I was always looking up words that I didn’t know. I went through school

with a dictionary in hand. And I began using these new words. I began writing poems. I wrote poems for the girls to try and impress them,” he laughs.

Enamored with the novel, he began trying his hand at writing one himself.

He wrote several, his practice pieces.

Feedback and rejections only pushed him to keep trying.

“Writing is hard work. You have to learn it like any other job. It’s an occupation.” (Keep in mind that this was in the days of the typewriter, which made

Anaya now counts about forty books to his credit—novels, essays, children’s books, plays. He is a man who embodies thoughtfulness with reflection that hovers on brooding. Being with him even for a short while, it’s obvious that another world, one invested with nuances that flicker with dark and light lives close by. It’s a world only he can tap into.

That he’s garnered so many fans over the years is testament to how he translates this other world, bringing back revelations that help others understand

“I was searching for some truth or faith to sustain us during her passage. Randy’s journey was a healing process for us.” ~ Rudolfo Anaya writing a much more arduous task than with a computer.)

After graduating from the University of New Mexico, Anaya taught high school four years then went on to get a degree in counseling. All the while he continued writing.

Biographical notes list Bless Me, Ultima as his first novel. However, wellstructured plots, finely drawn characters, depth and nuance come only from practice. Ultima was not his first novel.

“Ultima was just one more attempt to write a novel. I’d written several others before that. First books are autobiographical and this one turned out to be a rite of passage about a boy growing up. It came as a vision and became

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their own undercurrents. But this gift is also what got Ultima banned.

I mentioned when teaching in Vaughn, I needed my reading list approved. My request for Ultima was denied because: “He grew up here. It’s too close.”

Santa Rosa is just down the road.

“People are afraid,” Anaya says. The fine craft of this book walks a not so delicate line between Catholicism and curanderas, village healers that tap into unseen worlds.

In leaving, I glance at a coffee table that holds many turtles. He smiles.

“When my second book Tortuga, which means ‘turtle’ in Spanish, came out e people gave me lots of turtles.”

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e h A a s l t n m i f o g n i Bless

by Florence Dean

Dogs of all sizes and types attended last year's Blessing of the Animals in Magdalena. Photos courtesy of Marguerite Sweeney, The Grizz Project.

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t. Francis of Assisi, an Italian Catholic friar and preacher, loved all animals and wrote a Canticle of the Creatures, an ode to God’s living things: “All praise to you, Oh Lord, for all these brother and sister creatures.” In honor of St. Francis’ Feast Day, October 4, a Blessing of the Animals ceremony has become a world-wide tradition.

Rev. Woody Peabody, Vicar of The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany in Socorro, has officiated at the blessing ceremonies in Socorro for several years, though he says he has participated in blessing animals for over thirty years.

The blessing service starts with a scripture, then a prayer and response. Animals are blessed individually, and then a blessing is asked for each pet and owner and their relationship. Recitation of the well-known poem “Rainbow Bridge” concludes each service. The ceremony usually lasts about a halfhour, while participants stand in a circle awaiting each blessing.

Pets that are brought to the event have included mostly dogs, but also cats, turtles, a bird, horses, mules,

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and even a chicken. Rev. Peabody has, on occasion, made house calls to bless an animal who might not be sociable enough for the group, or whose owner is ill.

The Blessing of the Animals service is also held in Magdalena.

Marguerite Sweeney with her husband, Ed, operate a non-profit animal care group called The Grizz Project in Magdalena. They have sponsored the blessing ceremony there for the past two years.

The Grizz Project was formed in honor of the Sweeney’s beloved pet, a large Doberman named Grizz who died several years ago. Originally the group was started as an alternative answer to local animal control, but Marguerite says that when their organization sees a problem, they try to find a solution.

They have built dog enclosures, purchased food for dogs, cats, goats, and horses, as well as paying for emergency care, spaying and neutering, and other much needed assistance to families and abandoned animals.

For the blessing ceremony, the animals and their owners gather on

an open, concrete slab at the Rodeo Grounds. Last year about twentyfive people and their pets attended.

Marguerite recalls a blessing for a tiny Chihuahua who was near the end of its life. Grizz volunteers also arranged drive-through blessings for sick animals.

Last year, a Chihuahua ran away from the service, prompting several people to chase it and bring it back to be blessed. Marguerite says it was a happy time with people laughing, and crying.

This year the Blessing of the Animals will be held the first Saturday in October in Socorro and the following Saturday in Magdalena.

What better way than these blessing ceremonies to honor a man who lived many centuries ago but whose love for animals has lived on as an example of God’s e love for all creatures.

Florence Dean is a member of Otero County Electric Cooperative.

The views expressed in this article are exclusive to the groups featured, and are not necessarily the views of any particular electric cooperative or the New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association.

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Rainbow Bridge “Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water, sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable. All the animals that had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor, those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing: they miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when someone suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; his eager body begins to quiver. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face, your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross the Rainbow Bridge together. " ~ Author Unknown

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The Way of the Lotus

by Angela Perez

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magine dropping your cell phone into a swimming pool—and then, after a panicked retrieval, finding it’s completely dry and works just fine.

This scenario is now entirely possible thanks to recent developments in water-repellent coatings known as superhydrophobics. Once applied, superhydrophobic coatings render a surface not just water resistant (like a Gore-Tex-treated raincoat), but completely untouchable by liquids. The potential is astounding.

“Practical application of this technology will save electric consumers millions of dollars in repair costs by protecting equipment that is vulnerable to liquids, like ice,” asserts Tom Lovas, technical liaison and contractor with the Cooperative Research Network

(CRN), the research and development arm of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.

Bio-Inspiration Scientists refer to superhydrophobics as the “lotus effect.” Revered by many Far East cultures for its purity, the aquatic lotus plant boasts large, round leaves covered in hairy micro- and nanoscopic protrusions.

These protrusions instantly repel liquids (like raindrops, for example) by forcing them outward at a 150- to 180-degree angle.

In essence, that force allows air to enter between the leaf and the droplets, keeping water from ever actually touching the leaf. In fact, if you were to immerse an aquatic lotus into a tank of water, the foliage would appear coated in shimmering translucent silver because air is trapped between the water and the leaf’s surface.

“Just like lotus leaves, synthetic superhydrophobic coatings make surfaces virtually ‘unwettable,’” Lovas states. “Manufacturers are quickly finding ways to put the products to use.”

For electric utilities, Dr. John Simpson, a pioneering researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has developed a glass-based coating that he says could

be applied to power lines and other outdoor electrical equipment.

Simpson’s powder creates a microscopic air layer between the coated material and any water on the surface so that, just like a lotus leaf, the material stays dry even if totally submerged in water.

In a simulation conducted in an environmental chamber at the lab, Simpson sprayed cables in freezing water and found that only a small ridge of ice accumulated, which easily vanished with a quick tap. “In the real world, vibration from power flow plus movement from wind would continually knock any ice off,” Simpson points out.

Built-In Cleaning Service There’s another feature of superhydrophobics that mimics the lotus leaf: “self-cleaning.” The lotus leaf’s continual movement—caused by wind, rain, waves or passing animals—drags away dust particles, fungus, or other potentially harmful contaminants. Similarly, Simpson’s coating allows power lines and attached devices to repel water droplets that, in turn, carry away salt and other elements contributing to deterioration.

“Every winter, ice and freezing rain cause power lines to snap and equipment to short out,” Lovas remarks.

“And in coastal areas, sea spray coats distribution and transmission equipment with corrosive salt. These harsh conditions cost electric utilities, and consequently consumers, millions of dollars every year in equipment damages. A superhydrophobic coating could prevent these problems and improve service reliability.”

If his formula proves effective in practical applications, Simpson estimates that losses to large transmission lines could be reduced by 40 percent to 90 percent—saving individual electric cooperatives hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.

CRN, in partnership with researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, has been field testing its own superhydrophobic coating. “Superhydrophobics are a prime focus for our research because part of our job is to create solutions for electric co-ops,” Lovas explains. “Ice and corrosion continue to be very expensive concerns. We hope e to change all that.”

Source: Cooperative Research Network.

Angela Perez writes on technology issues for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. The Cooperative Research Network contributed to this article.

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Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous Rocks

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or people intrigued with Western America’s early history, art and travel, this large-format book has it all. In 1850, a man from Arkansas, William Minor Quesenbury (pronounced Cush-en-berry), headed to California with other gold seekers.

He was 28 years old, and gold wasn’t his only reason for traveling over rugged, unknown terrain. As an artist, he also wanted to record the landscape along the way. Once he got to California, entrepreneurial John Wesley Jones hired him to record even more of the land on the return trip. This book gathers 71 of Quesenbury’s sketches from the Jones’ expedition.

Rio Grande Sand in Your Shoes

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his book contributes to the historical literature of Española and the surrounding areas through portraits of local people and events.

The author moved from Ohio to New Mexico in 1946, when her husband, a doctor, was asked to help

The works in pencil are illuminated by eyewitness accounts from the period, modern maps, contemporary photographs, and descriptive notes. The book is well researched and heavily end-noted. The accompanying essays offer insightful accounts of the artist’s travels and the worlds of panoramic art and field exploration.

Sending artists and daguerreotypes west was a calculated attempt to sell western travel to the masses. The book looks at other artists’ work from the same period and how it was used commercially. A fascinating peek into part of the West we don’t always get.

build a hospital in Española. The author quickly became involved in the community, including helping to start the local library.

The book reveals accounts of local politics and business, lesserknown and well-known people.

Georgia O’Keeffe was a patient of Dr. Sam Ziegler for 30 years and became a friend of the family.

The writing isn’t top quality or literary, and more editing would have helped, yet for anyone who knows the Zieglers or lives in Española, the book will surely top the reading list.

A few photos of horses, family dogs, Eagle Scouts, dinners, and weddings grace the pages.

Rio Grande Sand in Your Shoes, A Memoir. By Isabel Ziegler. Sunstone Press, 2011. Softcover. 328 pgs. $26.95. To order call 1-800-243-5644.

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very culture has a resolana, a place where the villagers gather, talk and reflect on society, culture, and politics. The three authors, all professors with diverse backgrounds in social work, sociology, public administration, literature, history, and education, created this book under the theme of the resolana. In doing so

Forgotten Tales of New Mexico Mexico. Meet the crew This small book packs lots of little known and factual stories about our state. The author weaves together a colorful medley of emboldened characters and controversial schemes that helped shape the course of history in New

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that accidentally dropped a hydrogen bomb, the Union troops who surrendered after “destroying” a cache of whiskey, the governor who rerouted Route 66 to spite his successor, and the first African American woman to enlist in the

Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous Rocks, William Quesenbury’s Overland Sketches, 1850-1851. By David Royce Murphy. University of Oklahoma Press, 2011.

Hardcover. 304 pgs. $45. To order call 405-325-3200.

they apply new perspectives to urban settings with global overtones. They also address how to benefit from the networking in place these days.

This book is based on many interviews and the academic studies cite different cases and transcribed dialogues. The reading isn’t easy; the information, however, covers historic knowledge and some of the topics in the book include making it in the Anglo world, family and values, education, leadership, politics, and immigration. The social commentaries the authors bring to the book look at the traditional Mexican culture within a new context.

Resolana, Emerging Chicano Dialogues on Community and Globalization. By Miguel Montiel, Tomás Atencio and E.A. “Tony” Mares. University of Arizona Press, 2009. Softcover. 224 pgs. $26.95. To order visit www. uapress.arizona.edu.

Book Review Submissions U.S. Army. The stories are not the usual ones we all know; and dates, places, names tack the stories down with fact.

Forgotten Tales of New Mexico. By Ellen Dornan. History Press, 2012.

Softcover. 176 pgs. $12.99. To order call 1-866-457-5971.

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Cherishing the Memory of Getting Electricity

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ach October, cooperatives all across America celebrate the role, accomplishments and contributions of our nation’s co-ops. Observing National Cooperative Month gives electric co-ops yet another reason to tell our members that they are part of something special. Cooperatives have an obligation to provide reliable, affordable, and safe electricity, but we take that a step further. We also have a responsibility to support our members, enrich schools, and enhance our communities.

Electric cooperatives were formed because rural communities were struggling for lack of investment. Neighbors banded together and lit up the countryside when no one else would. That’s what we celebrate each October. Following is a story submitted by a co-op member who remembers the day her family first received electricity.

The Light Bulb Lit Up! A Memory by Ann Boulden, Datil "Oh, how well do I remember the day we got the first electricity in our house! I was only about eleven years old back in 1947-48. My father was one of those who helped bring the electric line into our town of Hope, New Mexico, from the Central Valley Electric Co-op in Artesia, about 21 miles away. In those days, we did not have the regulations they do now, so my father wired our house himself for electricity. He installed one electric light bulb in the center of the living room. It had no cover; just the bare bulb. Up until then, coal oil lamps had been our light, and that was the light I used to see my homework at night.

Oh, how exciting it was when my father said it was ready to turn on! My mother, my baby brother, who was about 3 at the time, and I, all lined up to watch as he flipped the switch. Today, we take our electricity so much for granted and don’t even think about it when we flip a switch, but back then it was a real miracle to see that light bulb light up! Now, we could even have a radio that was run by electricity instead of a battery, and be able to listen to programs such as ‘The Squeaking Door,’ ‘Amos and Andy,’ ‘Fibber McGee and Molly,’ and of course, ‘The Grand Ole’ Opry,’ and the ‘Louisiana Hayride’ on Saturday nights!

Now, with most of our apparatus run by electricity, what would we ever do withe out our electric companies?"

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that would run through Roswell and on to Portales, that was enticing to people.”

Elder says New Mexico needed 60,000 people before it could jump from being a territory to a state.

That the railroad was built was no coincidence. It brought many people looking for a life of ranching or farming. “With ground water close to the surface a large number of people filed homestead claims,” says Elder. And the Trotter family was one of them.

Only they came in the dead of winter, no doubt to set up before spring planting. But the cold and the harsh elements took everyone down with colds; little Loral Eugene became seriously ill. They summoned a doctor who diagnosed

weathered and the ending “l” dropped off or eroded, turning Loral into Lora. When the Hobbs Daily News-Sun published an article about the grave, it received a letter shortly after from Heloise Baker of Wellman, Texas. She said it was her brother’s grave and contributed to the story.

After Loral Eugene died, the fields that year grew lush. But the family’s heart wasn’t into it. They moved to Throckmorton, Texas in January 1908. Charles Trotter died in 1957.

In 1958, the boy’s now-grown sisters returned to the gravesite with a new headstone and a pipe fence. That’s when people learned the name was Loral. In 1961, the mother finally got to visit her son’s grave; she died in 1974.

rians, there is a category of “lonely graves” or burial plots outside of graveyards, and these two graves belong to that designation.

A mix of fiction with deeply rooted historical facts fascinates Elder. A professor at Eastern New

In 1958, the boy’s now-grown sisters returned to the gravesite with a new headstone and a pipe fence. That’s when people learned the name was Loral. bronchial pneumonia. The boy died February 16, 1907.

Gene Bundy, head of Special Collections at Golden Library on the Eastern New Mexico University campus, has a file of articles about the grave that have appeared. Over the years people believed the grave was a little girl’s.

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Today, there are still living relatives of the Trotters, scattered into Texas and Colorado.

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Mexico University for sixteen years, says, “There were hardly any roads for the covered wagons that came here. In an area where there weren’t any trees that you could notch to mark the trail made traveling difficult.”

So any guidepost was welcomed and giving directions to “keep going beyond the child’s grave” was an honest way to direct others.

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That trail soon became a bywa then a rutted dirt road. Now it’s a state highway. Over the years, two neighboring ranchers, John Roge and Earl Mayhon, cared for the gravesite. One day a highway crew came by and they talked the foreman into making a slight curve around the grave. Today the high way runs straight by it, but there places to pull off and view the gra The gravesite of Loral Eugene is located along Highway 60/80 between Fort Sumner and Melros near Tolar. Unpretentious but decorated with plastic flowers and surrounded by a pipe railing, the gravesite is hard to see. You almo have to know it’s there.

Taken in historical context, thi lonely grave is more than a mere marker along the trail. It stands a tribute to the tenacity that posses the hardy souls that tried making New Mexico home so long ago.

Cindy Bellinger is a member of MoraMiguel Electric Cooperative. She write the Book Chat column in enchantmen

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Bringing Back the Band

by Karen Boehler

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Name Joaquín Maestas-Manuel Resides Near Mora Co-op Member Mora-San Miguel Electric Occupation Bandmaster Where He Left His Heart He left his heart with the team, on the court, and in the band room.

In His Words “They [parents] forced me to play piano when I was seven years old, and pretty much that’s how I started.”

hen Joaquín MaestasManuel was a youngster, music wasn’t something he was much interested in.

“They [parents] forced me to play piano when I was seven years old, and pretty much that’s how I started,” he says. “I didn’t like it, and I kind of got out of it for a while, but then I joined the band in junior high.”

And from there, as they say, the rest is history. Maestas-Manuel went on to learn to play the guitar. He played in the band at Mora High School, winning two State Fair parade championships and a first place in a Florida jazz band competition.

He studied music at Highlands University and played in that school’s first mariachi group as well as the madrigal choir, concert choir, and marching band. And today, he’s giving that love of music back to the youngsters in Mora.

Eleven years ago, when MaestasManuel came back to teach at the small mountain-community school, the band no longer existed. But he was determined to bring it back, and that year he found four drummers and eight other musicians, and reinstated the program.

“It took about three years to get some numbers in there,” he says.

“And it took a couple more to get it to real quality. To have a variety of different music.”

Maestas-Manuel hooked up a sound system in the gym where the Rangers play basketball, and the band began entertaining during the games, and even traveled to Rio Rancho and Albuquerque when their teams made the state tournament.

The teacher remembered competing in the State Fair parade, but wasn’t certain his musicians were ready.

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“I was real skeptical of doing it for about seven years, and finally we went and we took first place the first year we tried.”

They took first the next year, 2010, and again in 2011, despite the 32-member band being accidentally classified in the large-school division with schools such as Las Vegas Robertson and West Las Vegas, which have 80-100 musicians.

Maestas-Manuel begins his music classes at the third grade level, where he teaches music theory. The fourth graders learn how to play as a group, the fifth grade has a beginning band with instruments, and sixth grade an intermediate band.

“I get them ready to play at the high school level,” he says.

Seventh through twelve graders can play in the pep band and marching band, and after years of playing at basketball games, Maestas-Manuel is ready to tackle Ranger football games.

“I’ve never done a football game, but I’ve done my research and I’m sure I could get an ‘M’ out there and an ‘R,’” he says. “Mora Rangers.

Whatever we have to do to try it.”

While the numbers of students participating aren’t big, their repertoire has grown to about thirty

songs and the awards show the Mora musicians are a talented group.

“We work with what we’ve got, and most of the music I get, a limited piece band would be able to pull it off,” the bandmaster says. “But a lot of it, too, is kind of hard stuff. If I can have four flutes, four clarinets, four alto saxes, some low brass, and some drummers; we’ll be all right.”

Maestas-Manuel has also started a mariachi group at Mora Junior High that he hopes to bring to the high school. He teaches guitar and plays in his own band, Quemoso, which has won awards from the New Mexico Hispano Music Association and New Mexico Latin Music Association.

But for Maestas-Manuel, a Pima Indian from the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona who was raised in Mora, it’s all about the children and the community.

“I would be doing the same thing if this was 200 years ago. I would be teaching the children my trade,” he says. “I played basketball for the Mora Rangers, and I left my heart on the team. For halftime I would play with the band. I left my heart on the court.

I left my heart in the band room when I left high school. And I came back, and my heart is still here.” e

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Pancho's Car Show and Auto Part Swap Meet October 27 Columbus

Take an autumn cruise to Columbus the weekend of October 27 and participate in the 7th Annual Pancho’s Car Show and Auto Part Swap Meet. The event takes place at Pancho Villa State Park from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Car and truck lovers will be in heaven as they get a glimpse at all the vintage to late model show cars, motorcycles, and choppers.

Enjoy music, food, raffle and door prizes, the park’s Exhibit Hall, and some of the best show cars and motorcycles in the southwest.

Trophies will be awarded in 15 categories including hot rod cars, hot rod trucks, antique cars, original cars, custom cars, best 4x4, under construction, best motorcycle, and best chopper.

For more information about the event, to register a show vehicle or as a vendor, call Pancho Villa State Park at 575-531-2711.

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You may either mail or e-mail your listing to us. Submit your event information at least one month prior to publication to: Community Calendar, c/o enchantment Magazine, 614 Don Gaspar Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87505 or e-mail at events@ nmelectric.coop. We’re always looking for events.

October 1-5 Roswell Worldwide Coaching Conference Grace Community Church 575-623-5438 October 5-7 Taos 7th Annual Bridge ACBL Tournament Sagebrush Inn 575-758-2254 October 6 Clovis Milk Jug Classic 5K Fun Run/Walk Hillcrest Park 1-800-261-7656

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October 6 Golden Fiesta at the Historic San Francisco Church State Highway 14 505-471-1562 October 6 Magdalena Very Large Array Guided Tours Old Highway 60 West 575-835-7243 October 6 Santa Rosa Santa Rosa de Lima Parish Duathlon Multi-Use Center 575-799-9697

October 6-8 Abiquiu Abiquiu Studio Tour Hwy 84 505-685-4454

October 13 Elephant Butte 3rd Fall Series Race Elephant Butte Lake 575-313-0392

October 7 & 14 Vadito Disc Golf Doubles Sipapu Ski and Summer Resort 5224 Highway 418 423-355-3954

October 13 Socorro Sevilleta Refuge Day Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge 505-864-4021

October 8-12 Socorro National Wildlife Refuge Week Bosque del Apache and Sevilleta Refuge 575-835-1828 October 8-14 Deming Southwestern New Mexico State Fair Fairgrounds 575-546-5255 October 11 Mosquero Harding County Health Fair Municipal Schools 575-673-2332

October 6-7 Angel Fire FlyDogz Fiesta Disc Dog Competition 30 Camino Grande 575-751-1800

October 12-13 Artesia Annual Main Event Car Show and Cruise Main Street 575-746-1117

October 6-7 Bernal Annual Bernal Fall Festival Community Center 575-421-2818

October 12-13 Socorro 10th Annual Socorrofest City Plaza 575-835-8927

October 6-7 Clayton Clayton Arts Festival Civic Center 575-374-9810

October 13 Clovis Windrush Alpacas Open Farm Day 770 CRM 575-683-5177

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October 20 Elephant Butte 8th Annual Desert Diamond Casino Night Elephant Butte Inn 575-744-4708 October 20 Tucumcari Holiday Craft Fair Quay County Fair Barn 575-461-3721 October 20 Tucumcari Tucumcari Olympics Dunn’s Park 575-461-1694 October 20-21 High Rolls High Rolls Apple Festival 56 Cottage Row 575-682-6044 October 20-21 Portales 39th Peanut Valley Festival Roosevelt County Fairgrounds 1-800-635-8036 October 26-28 T or C 40th NM Old Time Fiddler’s Association Ralph Edwards Auditorium Civic Center 575-297-4071 October 27 Alamogordo New Mexico Fall Festival New York Avenue 575-430-6381 October 27 Winston St. Jude Mission Fiesta Downtown 575-743-0131

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Excellent guard dogs for your livestock and wonderful pets. Great temperament. Both parents on premises. Will be very large! $200. Call 575-387-6867.

hay eQuiPment FoR Sale.

1, 1014 Heston swing swather, very good condition. 1 New Holland hay liner, hay stacker, 1033, good working condition. 1 New Holland bailer, working condition, needs paint, Model 278 hay liner. All for $6,500. 575-708-0044; 575-461-4170.

miniatuRe donkeyS FoR Sale. lotS of fun.

E-mail: donkeysfarm@ yahoo.com or call 254-965-7224.

FoR Sale: PuRebRed engliSh ShePheRd puppies, 12 weeks old as of September 22. Great herding dogs, good with children, $175.

Call 505-753-9845 or 505-692-9443. Pictures on request.

FoR Sale: RegiSteRed boRdeR Collie puppies.

Excellent stock dog prospects. Well bred, black and white colored.

Both parents are good, working dogs. Call 575-375-2972.

new mexiCo dRinking wateR StoRage Tanks, Heavy Duty Black Poly. Fittings customized to your needs.

NMwatertanks.com, 1-800-603-8272. Also new Servel propane gas refrigerators, 8 cubic feet.

Kitchen or remote cabin.

575-682-2308. buFFalo meat, gRaSS-Fed, all CutS USDA inspected.

All natural (no hormones, antibiotics, chemicals), low cholesterol, hearthealthy, non-allergic, wholes and halves. Skulls, Hides, By-products. Gift Certificates. 575-278-2316, Tom and Inge Bobek. thank you FoR adveRtiSing in enchantment. We appreciate your business.

See ya' next month.

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Ranch Horse For Sale: 11 year old registered Sorrel Gelding. 15 hands. Good in rocks and brush, $1,600. Raton, NM. Call 575-447-2220 - Evenings.

Quail for Sale.

Landowners for Restocking - Training of Bird Dogs - Field Trials. Excellent eating!

(Grain Fed) - Bob Whites, Blue Scaled, Gambles and California Valleys. Hatching eggs and chicks! J & M Quail Farm. Glencoe, NM. 575-378-1056.

Need a Preventive? We Stop Colic, our name says it all! Our one and only mission is to save horses and stop horse colic. To learn more visit our website at www. westopcolic.com or call toll free at 1-888-2399452. Retail or wholesale orders accepted.

Ranch Horse For Sale: 12 year old Gray Gelding.

15 hands. Good in rocks and brush, $1,200. Raton, NM. Call 575-447-2220- Evenings.

For Sale: Southdown/ Dorset cross ram. 1 year old. Excellent quality, good breeder. $300 or best offer. Northeastern NM. Call 575-375-2972.

Coffins: Handcrafted Solid Wood from $680.

Three styles suitable for burial or cremation.

Statewide delivery available. For a FREE catalog and funeral information booklet (English or Spanish) call 505286-9410. www.theoldpinebox.com.

Hunting near Pecos?

Order Hunter Food Packs. Homemade caramel nut rolls, bread, capulin jelly, honey, jerky & more! For your hunting camp food treats call Pecos Pablo, Pecos, NM 505-603-2310/pecospablo@hotmail.com.

For Sale: Jesse French & Sons Piano, $175. Subaru Truck Cab for Go-cart, $20. Call: 505-832-4793.

Good-used Restaurant Equipment, 6.5 cu. foot sandwich prep, refrigerator w/cutting board & inserts. 63-1/2” L electric hot food table w/cutting board, pans & lids; 24”W x 25”D counter type char broiler; small pizza oven; 18.5 qt. pasta cooker; 3-20 qt. stock pots w/lids; several new table tops; glass TV stand-for flat screen; nice oak TV stand. Call Lee @ 575-485-2586 after 6:00 p.m.

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For Sale: Front and rear bumpers for a 1953 Chevy car or station wagon, $150 Good condition. Bell housing for 1957 Chevy, $75. Four 14” rally wheels for 198086 Chevy, Monte Carlo.

Call 505-753-8605.

3E Electric - “Any electrical project, large or small.” Affordable solar/ wind alternatives, for grid tie or emergency B.U. power. Lic. #056903.

Call 505-803-0966.

Pickup camper shell for trade, fiber glass, hookup for lights, fits Chevrolet S-10, Toyota, Datsun, Nissan, any small pickup with long box, will trade for guns, fishing equipment, old wood cookstove, old wood heaters, guns, cedar wood for my stoves. Lee Cordova, Moriarty, NM, 505-469-0181.

2010 Open Range Journeyer 337 RLS bumper pull, three large slides, chest of drawers, washer/dryer combo, very clean, looks and comfort of a fifth wheel without the price, check it out on their website at openrangejourneyer. com, $35,000. 575-6872156 or 979-826-6573.

I buy Spanish Colonial spurs, stirrups, horse bits, weapons, etc.

Also, old New Mexico Santos and handmade/ carved furniture. Call 505-753-9886.

Wanted: New Mexico Motorcycle License Plates 1900 - 1958. Paying $100 - $1,000 each.

Also buying some New Mexico car plates 1900 1923. Bill Johnston, Box 640, Organ, NM 880520640. Telephone, 575382-7804, NMhistory@ totacc.com.

Railroad Items Wanted: Lanterns, locks, keys, badges, uniforms, dining car china, etc.

Especially seeking items from early New Mexico railroads such as: AT&SF, D&RG, EP&NE, EP&SW, and C&S. Randy Dunson, 575-356-6919.

The November deadline is Tuesday, October 9th.

Wanted: New Mexico Highway Journal magazine, 1923 - 1927. Paying $10 $25 single issues, $400- $800 bound volumes. Library discards OK. Bill Johnston, Box 640, Organ, NM 880520640. Telephone, 575382-7804, NMhistory@ totacc.com.

Buying Old Stuff: Gas pumps and parts 1960s or earlier, advertising signs, neon clocks, old car parts in original boxes, motor oil cans, license plate collections, Route 66 items, old metal road signs, odd and weird stuff. Fair prices paid.

Have pickup, will travel.

Gas Guy in Embudo, 505-852-2995.

MAKE A DAY OF IT at Rough Rider Antiques in Las Vegas. Our dealers are combing New Mexico for items that will surprise and delight you.

Merchandise arrives daily. Check out our tin ceiling. Use the bathroom; ask for directions. If you have time, shop our 5,000 square foot store. It can take hours. Open MondaySaturday 10:00 a.m. to 5: 00 p.m., Sunday 12:00 Noon to 4:00 p.m. 501 Railroad Avenue, across from the Visitor Center.

505-454-8063.

Wanted: New Mexico Automobile License Directory (“The Zia Book”), and Motor Vehicle Register books, 1900 - 1949. Library discards OK. Paying $75 - $100 per volume.

Bill Johnston, Box 640, Organ, NM 88052-0640.

Telephone, 575-3827804, NMhistory@ totacc.com.

NOTICE Socorro Electric Cooperative District 1 Election If elected as your Trustee, I pledge to be available to the members of District 1 and stridently represent them to the SEC Board.

Vote for Dave Bockenstette on Saturday, October 13, 2012.

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"I will fight for the members and lower rates."

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I would like to purchase the Real Estate Contract, Mortgage or Deed of Trust for which you are receiving payments. Please call for fast pricing and quick closing. Barbara Baird, 1-800-458-9847. E-mail: pinonview@aol.com.

550 acres fully fenced, 3/2, 3,000 square feet house, sunroom, 2/1 bunkhouse, outbuildings, corrals, excellent well, telephone, electricity, LP gas, elk permits, easy access from Hwy 60. Pie Town.

Leave clear message at 575-772-2550.

Reserve, NM. Half acre with cabin. Borders Gila National Forest.

Concrete slab, septic system, beautifully landscaped. Electricity and water to property line. Located at end of paved road. $48,000.

575-533-6274.

For Sale: Mora Valley, approximately 20 acres dry land and 15 acres mountains. Serious inquiries only. Contact Mike at 505-753-6338.

Call Toll Free 1-877-854-SOFT (7638)

Hunting rifles, shotguns, AR’s, revolvers, pistols, holsters, Class 3 Ammunition by the box or by the case. Large assortment of targets Over 100 guns to choose from Concealed carry classes, safety Accessories/optics/slings/cases Gun cleaning, gun smithing, parts Lay-a-way 60-day same as cash Indoor shooting range coming soon Ask about our membership discount M-F: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Sat: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

1/2 mile east of I-25 in Los Lunas, next to Lowes

Call (505) 865-3500

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wateR dowSing and ConSulting. 36 years experience, proven success, in Lincoln County will travel. Call Elliot Topper, 575-354-2984.

vaCation Rental: wildeRneSS luxuRy gueSthouSe & boarding stable adjacent to Cibola Forest, mountain and mesa views. www.twoponyzranch.com.

taoS land FoR Sale: 1.3 acre; 2.0 acre; 3.0 acre with well share, electric.

Manufactured housing approved. Seller financing. Monthly payments starting at $329/month.

Lower Colonias/Camino Tortuga. Some is owned

by Licensed New Mexico Real Estate Broker. Call for details. 575-770-0831.

Mark @ Crossroads Realty, 575-758-3837.

FoR Sale by owneR: 4 bedroom/1 bath adobe home on .9 acre with 5 acres irrigated pasture. Five miles south of Belen, NM, on Hwy 304. House is approximately 1,700 sq. ft. with brick floors and wood beam ceilings, stove, DW and new roof. Asking $140,000.

Will consider REC. Call: 505-480-2042.

it’S youR home…demand Quality…we deliveR! Alternative Building Solutions can build your new Off-Site Conventionally constructed home at our Moriarty facility where labor and materials are cheaper. Then, we’ll transport the whole house to your lot, statewide. Starting at $79-$111 sq. ft! This includes transportation, foundation, and 5 yards of concrete for patios. Custom on-site construction also available. 505-832-6111; www.absnm.com.

20 aCReS, 45 minuteS FRom Santa Fe, meadow, forest. $800 down. Owner financed, all utilities, end of road. $125,000. 505-466-2941 or 505-690-0308.

ColumbuS, nm, hwy 11, 3 miles north. Health causes sale of our 80 acres. RV site with water, electric, septic hookups. Well house provides storage. Lots of vegetation on property. $72,000 OBO. Will carry partial. Call Tom at 303-618-8431. live the dReam - RiveR Front Mountain Lodge for Sale in Jemez Springs, NM. 15 guet rooms, manager’s apartment, 2 bedroom office, 3 bedroom, 2 bath house. $650,000, possible owner financing. www.lacuevalodge.com; 575-829-3300.

Santa Fe, nm, 20 beautiFul acres borders El Dorado wilderness with nice views.

15 minutes from Santa Fe Plaza. Driveway and building site with all utilities.

Owner financed $199,950.

Also, one acre in Pecos, NM, $15,000. 505-466-7566.

10 to 180 aCRe lotS. Next to Villanueva. Power and water. Down payment negotiable. $3,000 per acre. Call 505-690-9953 or 505-690-0308.

Chama valley neaR el vado Lake, 10 acres with trees, year round access, hunting OK, TERMS $29,000.

One tree covered acre in Parkview Hills with power in road five minutes from Heron Lake $16,900.

BURNSIDE REALTY, www.buyburnside.com 1-877-709-4433.

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FoR Sale: Red RiveR, nm, two bedrooms, two full baths, kitchen, living room. Fully furnished, livable all year around. For full details call Bob or Betti Terry at 575-625-2305. Listed in Red River with Steve Smith Resort Realty, 575-754-2923 or 1-800-339-2474. About 1,000 sq. ft., $150,000 or make us an offer. laRge 1 1/2 bedRoom, 1 bath home with attached greenhouse, carport. Separate garage with shop, guest quarters with bath on large fenced yard with many tree’s.

Bluewater Lake, NM $35,000 OBO. Owner will carry with substantial down. Call 505240-1589, leave message.

FoR Sale: bluewateR PRoPeRty. 16x60 single wide, garage w/workshop on 1/4 acre, Highway 412, 1/4 mile from lake. Furnished, new paint, heater, covered deck & windows. $42,500. Call Charles, 505-323-5205. lot in moRiaRty, nm, 2 acres, has natural gas, electricity, water at front of lot. Will trade for Chevrolet 4x4 pickup in the 2006 model range or Chevrolet Tahoe 4x4 or GMC, same range or for old backhoe, pontoon boat, ATV’s. Lee Cordova, 505-469-0181.

FoR Sale by owneR: 34 acres; Mora Valley; 17 irrigable + 17 mountain; surveyed; 2 acequias/water rights.

Pre-qualified buyers only.

Call Chris, 575-587-2080.

Leave message with name & number.

3.2 aCReS neaR weed, nm - 98 Seep Canyon Road, doublewide, 3 bedrooms, 2 bath, central heat propane. All appliances, wood stove, new water well, 3,000 gallon tank, corrals, horse stall, bomb shelter, storage building, $75,000. 575-762-1061.

2006 gmC 2500, 4x4, Single cab work truck in excellent condition. 2nd owner.

You will not find a cleaner work truck, Knapheide bed box, ladder rack, 115,000 miles, $10,250. Call or text for more info and pictures.

575-910-0627.

FoR Sale: 1987 ChevRolet StaRCRaFt Conversion Van 350, Automatic, AC, PS, PB, PW. Newly upholstered captains seats. New shocks, new brakes. Excellent running condition. 114K miles, $3,500 OBO. Tony, 505-753-7442.

1995 land RoveR, Salvage title, $1,600 as is. New, 19 candy machines, paid $100 each, will sell for $25 each.

Call 505-384-1836. two 1993 dodge PiCkuPS. both have turbo Cummins Diesels - standard transmission and flat beds. Asking $4,000 for 3/4 ton. Asking $6,000 for 1 ton dually with 4 wheel drive. Will consider equal value trade.

Both trucks are in running condition, but are rough.

575-588-7698.

2006 FoRd F-250, PoweRStRoke laRiat, FX4 Off Road Package, Towing Package, Chrome Package in excellent condition, Rhino Liner, fold down gooseneck hitch, 103,000 miles blue/ gold, $17,500. Call or text for more info and pictures.

575-910-0627. deSeRt Fox 21Sw by noRthwood. Self contained 4 season Toyhauler built for the long haul. Fiberglass hardwall, awning, outdoor shower, 4KW Onan generator, 25 gallon fuel station. oversize refrigerator/freezer, ducted forced air conditioning and heater, heated fresh and waste water tanks. Many more upgrades as well. This rig is in excellent condition, ready to go. $33K new, buy this clean unit for $18,500.

Located in Cimarron, NM Call 575-376-2145.

67-72 PluS Chevy Pu PaRtS, etc. 68 Chev. 3/4 ton Longhorn. 4-speed transmission with stock 455 Olds rebuilt with 14K miles.

Good mechanical condition. No computers! 1/2 and 3/4 ton disc brake, front axle for conversions, $50.

73 plus 14 bolt rear axles, $50. Front drive shafts.

Muncie 465 transmission with 205 transfer case, $80. Front clips. Steering columns. Heater controls.

Longhorn bed and extra fenders. Hoods. Doors and parts. 6 hole new front disc brake, 4x4 rotors, $20. Lots of other parts and pieces. 1990 6BT 5.9 Cummins engine with NV 45000 5-speed transmission. Complete assembly from transmission to AC condenser still on frame for easy conversion. All parts with wiring still on frame.

Air cleaner also. 104K miles on engine, $4,800.

East of Albuquerque. Call 505-281-2288.

RuRal ConvenienCe StoRe with PaCkage Liquor License, living quarters on 1.3 acres with 3 acre foot well. Borders Gila National Forest.

Serious inquiries only. Call 575-533-6720.

FoR Sale by owneR: Caballo Lake RV Park. 19 full hookup, 35x55 pull throughs with 30-50 amps. 5 dry camp sites. Wi-Fi. Easy on/off I-25. Walk to beach.

Close to boat ramp, fishing, ghost towns, museums, stores, galleries & laundromats. Completely remodeled house w/central heat & air, furniture & appliances.

Guesthouse & furniture.

Tool shed, well house, carport, golf cart. Good landscaping and interior roads. Asking $500,000 for all. Will consider any reasonable offer. Motivated to sell! Call 575-743-0502.

Afternoons best. the moSt waSted oF all days is one without laughter. ~ e.e. cummings.

FoR Sale: dRy Standing dead Engleman Spruce vigas, house logs up to 41 feet, will custom cut. Call 575-638-5619.

RoSwell, nm! town and CountRy 5 acres pipe pens w/3 bedrooms, 2 baths bungalow. Owner finance, asking $189,000. 10% down. Bigger the down payment the smaller the price. Call 575-648-2049, khaughne@gmail.com.

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Tick Tock the Clock These clocks are so awesome! Time is endless this month, and just keeps on flying. Keep up the good work co-op Youth Artists!

The Youth Editor accidently got a bright idea for November's topic when the light bulb in the office went out. So let the light shine and draw Light Bulbs for November's topic. Take a stroll through your local hardware store or library, and see the variety of sizes, shapes and colors available for light bulbs.

Can you believe the holiday season is near? Holiday lights, ornaments and trees are already in the stores. So let's get into the holiday spirit, and draw some Holiday Ornaments for December. Dig out Mom's holiday ornament box and see what you find. Is there a pompom snowman? A gingerbread man? An angel? A candle? Or a reindeer? Use your imagination and send us your drawings.

Note: Parents we ask that you please include a telephone number on your child’s drawing. We have had several instances where we needed to call you. Thank you.

Youth Page Print your name, mailing address, phone number, age, and co-op name on your drawings. Otherwise, your drawings are disqualified.

Remember: color, dark ink or pencil on plain white 8.50 x 11.00 size paper is best. Mail to: Youth Editor, 614 Don Gaspar Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87505. Entries must be here by the 9th of the month before publication. Each published artist receives $10 for his or her work.

Kari Baker, Age 12, Portales

Melissa Barela, Age 8, Carrizozo

Lucy Domschot, Age 8, Socorro

Joceyln Gallegos, Age 10, Ribera

Mireya Gonzalez, Age 9, Grants

Rose Anna Miller, Age 10, Moriarty

Vanicka L. Neha, Age 10, Zuni

Kambrie Sanchez, Age 11, Socorro

Katelyn Tapia, Age 6, EspaĂąola

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